The Burlington County Prison Museum
is located
in Mt Holly, NJ. The prison was built in 1811 and wasdesigned by the famous architect Robert
Mills
(the designer of the Washington Monument). It is a
large rectangle
building made of stone and
iron
that looks more like a castle from the outside. It was
used continuously as a jail
until 1966. Since
then local legends spoke of the ghosts that inhabited the
building.
One in particular was the
ghost of Joseph
Clough,
a convicted murderer who killed his mistress with a leg from a table. He was held in the
death
row cell which consisted of an eye hook in the floor which he was
always chained and a
extremely small
window.
He was eventually hanged in the the 1850's and other guards and prisoners report hearing his moans and
chains
rattling from that cell. The guards and inmates also
reported seeing
someone in the empty cell as well
as
objects levitating in the cell.

In 1999 the county began a
restoration project
transforming the run down building into a museum and returning it to it's original condition. As the
work
progressed the construction working began reporting strange events
such as loud noises,
voices and screams
coming
from various areas of the building. They also reported having
their tools disappear
when they turn thir
backs
only to find the missing items in another room or on another floor
later on in the
day.
Eventually
some workers were leaving early so they would not be the last ones in
the
building. The county officials decided to contact
a
local research ghost research group, South Jersey Ghost Research,
to see what they could
verify the claims of
the
workers and to put their minds at ease. I was on each SJGR
teamthat gone out to the museum
and
witnessed
some of supernatural events first hand. On each
investigation
I set up a motion
detector in the death row
cell.
During each trip the motion detector was set off by an unseen
force. We
were able to capture orbs on video
and
film simultaneously with the motion detectors alarm going
off.
On the 2nd visit, I also
obtained an EVP
seconds
after the motion detector went off which was a man's voice saying 'go out here'. We did
experience
objects moving as well, as did 3 reporters from the New York Times that
were there with
us.
A stretcher that was located in the cell next to the death row cell
relocated
itself and it was actually the
reporters who noticed it first. Other members of the
SJGR observed a apparition in one part of the building and found a single barefoot print on a
dust covered
floor of what was once the prison showers. The teams
also obtained numerous
photos,
video clips and EMF readings. You can view some of the
photos
and other evidence on the
SJGR
website: http://www.hanutedhelp.org.

SJGR has investigated the museum many
times since they were first called out to investigate the
building. On our 10th trip there, I obtained two apparition
photos using a new camera rig I was testing.